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Joel Kinnaman

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Biography

Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman (born 25 November 1979) is a Swedish-American actor who first gained recognition for his roles in the Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. Kinnaman is known internationally for his television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in AMC's The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in the U.S. version of House of Cards. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the Warner Bros. film adaptations of the DC Comics anti-hero team Suicide Squad (2016), as well as James Gunn's 2021 sequel/soft reboot, The Suicide Squad. Since 2019, he has starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series For All Mankind.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Suicide Squad

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Suicide Squad

As Rick Flag

Icefall

As Harlan

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam

As John Nixon

Child 44

As Vasili

The Darkest Hour

As Skyler

Sympathy for the Devil

As The Driver

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Criminal Alliances

A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...

8 films

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